In conjunction with its fourth quarter and full-year financial earnings release, meat giant Smithfield Foods Inc., Smithfield, Va., said it offered to purchase its joint venture partner's 51 percent ownership interest in Butterball, LLC.
The makers of BUBBA Burger, Bubba Foods, LLC, Jacksonville, Fla., said it agreed to buy a meat processing plant in Hastings, Neb., from Armour-Eckrich Meats LLC.
Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., said it promoted Dennis H. Treacy to senior vice president of corporate affairs and chief sustainability officer.
Cincinnati-based John Morrell & Co. said today that it will permanently close its hog processing and fresh meat fabrication plant in Sioux City, Iowa, effective April 20, 2010.
Who says the deli doesn't deliver? Helping its customers keep pace with the freezercase, Stefano Foods Inc. added flatbread melts to its deli products line.
C. Larry Pope, CEO for Smithfield Foods, said last week that the company is becoming a packaged-foods company, relying less on hogs and fresh pork products.
Meat processing giant Smithfield Foods Inc., Smithfield, Va., announced a reorganization and six plant closings to "improve operating efficiencies and increase utilization" within its pork group.
Pork and turkey processing giant Smithfield Foods, Smithfield, Va., said it closed its Smithfield Innovation Group, a five-person unit dedicated to new product development.